Hey readers, it's me, the Jacquester. We had planned to do our recap of the 2008 election today, but we're going to wait until Monday for that. In the interim I leave you with a non-faith-based-politicking thought (My editor kindly permits me one per decade). Am I the only one who sees the recent spate of rumors about that Palin woman being a ditz and a diva as sort of, you know, sexist?
Thank God, the bad-mouthing isn't emanating from a bunch of Right-Wing, middle-aged, white guys who ran the McCain campaign. And it's a good thing that Left-leaning feminists--especially my colleagues in Academe--have rushed to the defense of a woman whose politics they may abhor but whose character is being assassinated along blatantly misogynistic lines.
She doesn't know Africa is a continent! She likes clothes, that vain little tart! And get this: She wore a towel--can you believe it, a towel!--as she emerged from the shower in the presence of her husband and two McCain strategists who dropped in on her hotel room. No display of flesh will be tolerated by the good men of the Republican Party.
Not since Jezebel have we seen this combination of powerlust and prurience from a woman. It's a good thing that so many brave anonymous tipsters, political operatives, journalists, and scholars have given Palin the Elijah treatment and put her in her proper place.
Jacques Berlinerblau is the Rabbi Harold White Chair in Jewish Civilization in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service and senior advisor to the Center for Jewish Civilization, where he was director from 2006 to June 2020. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from the sociology of heresy and modern Jewish intellectuals to African-American and Jewish-American relations.
